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Hmtz avfo Sotliufl. 1 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. __ WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV, 28. University .Education, We promised in our List issue to d'.seuea the Bubjeet of University Education. We take it for granted that all classes will adnrvt i that the yooth of the State, and more especially those | of them who will in after life fill the more elevated po j bilions iu society, and give touo to social life, and frame j our laws, and direct the policy of our Government, j should bo educated iu the State. We give but one j reason for its necessity. No man can frame wise laws - for the government of a people who is not thoroughly versed in their peculiarities and wants, social, moral and political, and no mau can become thoroughly informed on these subjects who has not spent his life among them. Taking this position for granted, it will at once be scon that there is an absolute neces iiy for Educational Establishments equal to the wants of our people. If you need linguists, you must have schools for instruc tion in language ; if you need mathematicians, you must have schools for instruction in mathematics ; if you need agriculturists, you must have schools for in-> etruction in those sciences which bear upon agriculture; if you need teachers in moral science, you must have schools for instruction in the moral sciences ; and these not of inferior grade, but the very best that can be es tablished. In other words, you must have a University at which all branches of a liberal education are taught by men who are masters of all the branches in which they give instruction. Without intending to disparage our institutions of learning, we think we may safely say they are not equal to the task of giving thorough instruction in all, if any, ofihe branches of Education in which our peo ple need to be taught. The great defect in our pres ent system of Education is, that our Colleges attempt to compass, in fewer years, the whole curriculum of knowledge. A course of study is prescribed embracing languages, ancient and modern, all sciences, Astronom ical, Mathematical, Mental, Moral and Practical—Histo ry. Belles Lettres and Criticism ; and compel every student, no matter what may be his mental idiosyncra sies, or future destiny, to go through the interminable labyrinth of the College course, before he can get a diploma ; and the result is that most of them learn a little of all aid nothing well; there are many smatter ers and no scholars. Practical men propose to remedy the evil pointed out by kicking the classics, criticism, history and belles lettres out of the College course, and devoting the time supposed to be waited upon these studies,to the practical sciences. There never was a more fatal blunder in education for the American people,than this proposition would introduce. We are a nation of orators and authors, and are more deeply interested in the culture of these particular branches of education than any other. No man can listen to our stump or ators; nay—or our State Legislators, and not quently our statesmen of national reputation, without being painfully conscious of their want of knowledge of language. Not only do they murder ihe English, but exhibit ignorance of the meaning of words, as well as of all the laws of elocution. Setting aside the an noyance thus oooasioned to a very largo class of hear ers, who have cultivated tastes and acute sensibilities, this batbarismis a serious irnptdiment to the success of the speaker and tho enlightenment of the people.— It engenders inaccuracy of conception on the part of the speaker and misinformation on the part of tho people. Language is the tool of the orator and author, and it is as impossible for an artisan to turn out a finished job with dull tools, as it is for them to communicate rapid idly, easily and gracefully to an audience, without a per fect knowledge of words and the rules of grammar.— We know it is a very general opinion that anybody can acquire the use of language in sufficient perfection to communicate his ideas with very little trouble-, but this is a grave error. A perfect knowledge of the English language, and the capacity to give it full force and expression in spoeoh, or in paper, is the highest and last attainment of the scholar, as it is one of the most valuable acquisitions of the divine, the lawyer, the politician and the writer. The world has produced but few men who have attained this elevated position in any nation or country. Cicero was pre-eminent among the Latins, Burke among the English, Webster among the Americans. Tney were all scholars in the old accepta tion of that term ; they knew the use of words-, they were linguists in a double sense. The result is that their intellectual remains will be read and admired as long as time lasts. And we make bold to say that no man can attain to this excellent knowledge of language without thorough instruction in the classics as well as of belles lettres. We are, therefore, utterly opposed to this miserable humbug of perfecting college education by excluding what our fathers called “tho humanities” from the college couise. No one will contend or pre sume that we can perfect our present system of Educa tion by excluding the mathematics from our colleges— we have too much need for engineers both in peace and war—nor chemistry, nor geology, nor mineralogy, nor any other of the hrauehes of education now taught in our colleges. There is no help for us, then, if we wish to be an ed ucated people, but to abandon our prtsent system of college education, and adopt the University plan of in struction : which is, in short, to teach all the branches now taught in our Colleges thoroughly, and to allow students to pursue those studies alone for which they will have a use in after life. The lawyer, divine, aud politician must be taught languages; the agriculturist, chemistry mineralogy, geology and botany ; the engi neer, soldier and merchant, the mathematics. Each class of studies to be thoroughly learned would con- j suine a four years term. But where i9 your institution where such iostructiou can bo imparted l There is no suoh institution in gia, and never can be without State Aid. It involves an outlay for apparatus, laboratories, lecture rooms, books and salaries, f,r beyond the enterprise, if not the ability, of private individuals. In our judgment, the State ought to give the necessary aid. In this way and this only, can our half dozen colleges be rendered cient for the education of the people. They now com pete with the Slate University, and destroy its useful’ ness. If the University were endowed as we propose, and put on a footing with that of Virginia, our various sectarian Colleges would become preparatory schools for the State lastitations, and the whole system become I a mutual aid association instead of being a hostile array j of small factions leading upon the other as it now is.— ! tJrte word of prot-st. W* would nt have the Legists* ture give a dojiar to be expended in brick and mortar, unless there is an actual deficiency of roam at the Uni vereity for lecture room, libraries, laboratories and so r'ety halls, after ad the dormitories id the College sre appropriated for these purposes. Os all the evils con ne ted v ith Ollegv If , tk* dormitory system and Commons’ Ilall aro the greatest. W e have not time now to make good this assertion. One remavk must suffice. No man is properly educated who is not at home in the parlor and capable of doing gracefully and gratefully the sweet amenities of the home circle. Inis wretched system of dormitories makes this impossible, and gives the youth of the country a distaste to social life, besides making them rude, awkward and often vi cious. A young man can never be properly educated who is out of the induenco of the home circle. o had rather see the present dormitories abolished than add to them. We commend these orude thoughts to the present General Assembly, and hope they msy aid tho able com* mittee on Education to carry through their bill for the perfection of our present system of College education. Exhibition ot the Deaf and Dumb. We had the pleasure of attending an exhibition of the Deaf and Dumb, attached to tho Asylum ot the Deaf and Dumb, before the committee on tho Asylum, on the night of the 23d inst., in the Hall of the House of Representatives. Three pupils wero exhibited by O. P. Fannin, the able and indefatigable President of the Institution. One was a little fellow from Marion county, who had been in the school only four months, and had, in that short space of time, not only acquired the use of written language to some degree, but had made very respectable progress in figures. The two other pupils had been in the Institution four years, and exhibited a perfect übc of language and a knowledge of the laws of grammar; great familiarity with geography; and quite clever arguments in arithmetic. We, as well as the committee, were surprised aud delighted at the proficiency as well as sprightliness of the pupils, and willingly bear tribute to the diligence and capacity of the amiable and accomplished President. There lire now thirty-nine pupils in the Asylum.— There are many more deaf mutes in the State who are deprived of the benefits of instruction by the scantiness of the provisions made by the State for their accommo dation. Application is now made for a small appropria tion to enlarge the Asylum and add to its capacity for use fulness. We presume it will be given with a liberal hand. No man can look upon the helplessness of an uneducated deaf mute and compare them with the pu pils who have been educated at the Asylum, without feeling that it would be an intolerable cruelty to deny to them the means of instruction. President Fannin has promised to exhibit his pupils before the General Assembly ou the 24th inst. We may recur to this sobject again. Wo call the attention of those of our readers wishing choice flowers of any description,to the ad vertiseinent of Messrs. Moses <fc Lee, No. 24 Broad street. Avail yourselves of an early opportunity ot calling on them, as they are rapidly diminishing their stock. Georgia Legislature. SENATE. Milledqevii.le, Nov. 24. The Senate met at 10 o'clock A. M. Tho morning was consumed in the consideration ol tho bill lor the pardon of Jacob Mercer, of the county of Stew art. The bill was advocated with much ability by Lan drum of Oglethorpe, and Gibson of Pike, and opposed by Peebles of Clarke, aud Swinney of Kinchefoonee. Upon a call of the yeas and nays, the bill was lost by a vote of ayes 29, nays 51. On motion of Murphy, of DeKalb, tho rules were sus pended and the following bills were passed : The bill to make advances to the members of tho Gene ral Assembly and officers of the two Houses. The bill to change the time ofholding tho Inferior Courts of DeKalb county. The Senate then adjourned to 10 o’clock Monday morn ing. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Milledceville, Nov. 24. On motion of Crook, of Chattooga, a resolution was adopted requesting the Executive to report to the House a list of all appropriations made by the State to Literary and Scientific Institutions. BILLS LOST. The bill to endow Atlanta Medical College by an ap propriation of SIO,OOO. m The bill to allow judgments to be rendered at the first term of Court, iu actions of debt, when no plea is tiled. The bill to compel the Governor to issue his w arrant for the land to the discoverer ot fraudulent land entries. A bill to compensate the Jurors of Appling county. BILLS PASSED. A bill to aliow certain persons therein named, to peddle ! without license. ! A consolidated bill changing the county lines between ! Union and Gilmer, Pike and Spalding, Marion and Sum j ter counties. The bill to compel non-resident land owners to pay ; their taxes in the county where the land lies. ! The bill to alter the ISth and 19th sections oi the first ar tide of the constitution—ayes 81, nays 37. The bill pro~ poses to relax the stringency of the oath now imposed upon members of the General Assembly as to the manner in which they obtained their election. i NEW MATTER. Milledge, of Richmond, introduced a resolution bringing ! on the election of State Printer on Tuesday next. Laid on the table for the present. A consolidated bill for giving State aid to various Rail* ; road enterprises, was introduced and read the first time.— | We will notice this bill more at length hereafter. Tne House adjourned to meet again at 10 o’clock Mon* | day morniug. SENATE. Milltogeviixe, Nov. 26. | The Senate met at 10 o’clock A. M. * On motion of Buchanan, of Coweta, the action of the Senate on the bill for the pardon of Jacob Mercer was re considered by a vote of yeas 57, nays 30. The speech of Mr. Buchanan was characteiized by sound logical argu* mant, and produced a decided effect upon the Seuate. McMillan of Habersham, seconded the motion, and in some remarks raised a doubt as to whether the Legislature dii not have power to commute punishment in cases of mur der and treason. Adams of Clay: A bill to incorporate Cotton Hill Male and Female Academy. Beasley of Troup: A bill to punish the obstruction of the public roads in Troup county by horse races. Calhoun of Fulton: A bill to repeal the act of 1860 regn lating the testimony of Attorneys at law. Cone of Greene: A bill to provide for the proof and va* : lidity of records, recorded deeds, and other instruments of; writing which have been destroyed by fire. Also, areso- ; lution raising a committee to ascertain the weight cf dif ferent kinds of grain. Also, a resolution tor printing the last census of the State. GibsoaofPike : A bill to lay out anew county from ! parte of Monroe,Crawford and Upson counties to be called ’'Town*.” j Knight of Lowndes: A bill for private relief. Lawton of Dougherty : A bill to grant State aid to the Georgia and Florida Railroad company. Also, a bill to incorporate the Dougherty Bridge company. Moody of Tatnall: A bill to change the line between j the counties of Ta'nall and Liberty. Also, a bill to legiti- | niatizo certain children therein named. Patterson of Jefferson: A bill to require three months notice to persons occupying the land, when application is made for a land warrant to the same. Paulk of Irwin: A bill to organize anew county out ot Pulaski, Irwin and Dooly counties. Peebles of Clarke: A bill to compel Sheriffs to euforce ii fae. Robinson of Laurens: A bill to incorporate Laurens Lodge No. 75, of Free and Accepted Masons. Scott of Stewart: A bill for tho relief of the estate of Joseph White, a gin maker in Stewart county, giving hia administrator power to carry on the business lor a limited time. Spalding of Mclntosh: A bill to appoint commissioners of pilotage for the port of Darien. Also, a reeoiutioa rais ing a committee to take the testimony of Wimberly of Stewart, in case of Jacob Mercer. Screven of Chatham, as chairman of the committee on Banks, reported amendments to the bill of Peebles of Clarke, to charter the Athens Banking company, which had been referrod to them. Strickland of Forsyth: A bill to compel persons hold j ing lands out of the county of their residence to give iu the number and district of the same to the Tax Assessors. The resolution of Spalding of Mclntosh, to appoint a committee to tako testimony in the case of Jacob Mercer, was taken up, amended and passed. The bill to place endorsers upon bankable paper upon the footing of securities, was laid on the table for the present. The bill to increase the salaries of tho Judges of the Su preme Court, was laid on the table for the present. The bill to charter the Athens Banking company was taken up, amended, and before tho same hud been conclud ed the Senate adjourned. The afternoon was consumed in consideration of the same bill. A resolution was adopted requesting the Executive to prolong the respite of Jacob Mercer, and to print the report of the Secretary of the Navy in reference to the port of Brunswick. The Senate adjourned to 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. Milledgeville, Nov. 26. The House assembled at 10 o’clock A. M. The House reconsidered its action rejecting the bill for compensating the Grand and Petit Jurors of Appling coun ty. Also, its action rejecting the bill appropriating SIO,OOO to Atlanta Medical College. Messrs. Crook, Cannon, Phillips, Jones of Muscogee, and Milledge, were appointed a committee to join a similar committee appointed on the part of the Senate to report to the two Houses how many Clerks were necessary in the offices of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the | House, and what compensation they should receive. The report of the Finance committee was presented by Phillips of Habersham. The bill for the pardon of John T. Boyd was taken up. Jones of Muscogee, offered a substitute lor tho bili com muting the punishment to imprisonment for life. The Spea ker ruled the substitute out cf order, as the bill had been en glossed. The original bill was laid on the table for the present—yeas 77, nays 33. Upon a call of counties the following bills were intro duced : Ward of Butts: A local bill. Jones of Muscogee: A bill commuting the punishment of John T. Boyd to imprisonment for life. Lawton of Chatham : A bill to allow the Justices of the Inferior Court of Chatham to levy an extia tax to build a jail. Also, a bill to incorporate the Ladies’ German Be nevolent Society in Savannah. Also, a bill for the relief of the heirs of Sheftall for revolutionary losses. Also, a bill allowing agents and attorneys to obtain distress war rants on their own affidavits. Also, a bill to define the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in Savannah. Crook of Chattooga: A bill to compensate Peter Mason for work done on the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Richards of Carroll: A bill to allow T. H. Roberts to practice modieino. Poffered, of Coffee: A private bill. Harris of Fulton: A private bill. Boyd of Lumpkin : A local bill. Wiggins of Marion: A private oill. Phiuizy of Oglethorpe: A pri vate bill. Dayis of Polk : A private bill. Barton of 1 Richmond: A private bill. Milledge of Richmond : A bill to allow juries in capital cases to say whether a party convicted shall be executed or imprisoned for life. Simmons of Worth: A bill to consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver and Collector in Worth county. The resolution ol Irwin of Wilkes, authorizing the Gov ernor to employ counsel in the ease of Alabama vs. the State of Georgia about the western boundary of Georgia • was taken up and passed. AFTERNOON SESSION. I The following bills were read a third time and passed: The bill to make a final disposition of the assets of the Central Bank and to abolish the office of Cashier. The bill to incorporate Holmesvilio Lodgo No. 195 of Free and Accepted Masons. ; The bill to incorporate the Atlanta Gas Light company, j The bill to consolidate certain precincts in Hancock I county. The bill to amend the patrol laws so far as Glynn couDty ; is concerned. The bill to incorporate Columbus Fire company No. 4. Tho bill to confer on certain married women therein ; named the privileges of tingle women. The bill to remove an election precinct in Campbell j county. The bill to allow the Justices of the Inferior Court of j Decatur county to levy a tax to pay Superintendents of | elections. The following bills were lo3t: The bill to change the organization of the Inferior Courts of the State ; and the bill to prevent the fraudulent enforcement of dormant judg menu. j The House adjourned to 91 A. M State Aid fleeting. A meeting of the members of ;he Legislature favor able to giving Stale aid to R ilroads, assembled on the evening of the 22d iust., in the Hal! of Representatives. Screven, of Chatham, was called to the chair, and Lawton, of Dougherty, appointed Secretary. Phillips, of Habersham, explained the object of the meeting to be the development and perfection of a plan to give State ad to the Railroad system of Georgia. Knight, of Lowndes, introduced the following ieso- JatioD, which was adopted by the meeting: Retolzed, Thai it is the opinion of this meeting that the State ought to lend its aid to such judicious Rail* road projects as will develope more effectually the great interests of the State. On motion of Long, of Glynn, the following reso lution ws adopted j Resolved. That the chair appoint a committee of j one from the frieuds of eaoh Railroad enterprise now before the Legislature, and that said committee report : their views on this subject to an adjourned meeting. Messrs. Long of Glynu, McMillan of Habersham, Hays of Early, Wellborn of Whitfield, Picket of Gdmer, Smith of Hancock, and Harris of Dougherty, were op j pointed on said committee. The meeting was addressed by Phillips of Haber sham, Lawton of Chatham, and Knight of Lowndes. The meeting adjourned subject to the call of the 1 President. J. P. SCREVEN, Chairman. W. J. Lawton, Secretary. Nomination of City Officers.—At a meeting of ! the K. N. party for the nomination of City officers, j held on Saturday last, the following gentlemen were j put forward : Mayor.—F. G. Wilkins. Marshal.— Wm. Mahaffey. Deputy Marshal.—ll. P. Robinson, j City Treasurer.—lsaac Mitchell. ! Clerk of Counoil.—Calvin Stratton. Sexton.—Thomas Nix. Returned. —Dr. Levert and lady, of Mobile, have i returned from their late European tour. They are i ; welcomed home by the papcrß of thateisy. Meeting of Congress. —The first session of the S4th j : Congress will commence in Washington on the 3d of December, n little less than one week from this. Al ; ready a number of inembcrß have reached the Nation- j ■■ al Capital. An interesting and exoiting session is an- ! ticipated. . Sr ’ Mrs. Julia Dean Hayne, says the N. Y. Mir- ■ ; ror, is playing a highly successful engagement at the j ! Broadway Theatre, the house being well filled every I evening, and with most enthusiastic audiences. This lady, in changing her name and condition, has lost none of her popularity ; uor any of that winning sweetness and grace, which have ever marked her perfoi inanee, and won for iter so many friends and admirers. Steamer Sallie Spann Hunted ! Two Lives Lost—Boat and Cargo Total Loss! At two o’clock last night about ninety miles above Mobil**, the steamer Sallie Spann took fire and burned j up, with 1,079 bales cotton on board. A deck-hand jumped overboard aad was drowned.- ; The second cook is missing—supposed to have burned to | death iu the engine room. B<>at and cargo a total loss. [Mobile Evening News , 22 d. Man Shot in Mobile. Mr. William 11. Trone, of Virginia, was shot to-night , | in the bar room of the Battle House, by Thomas G. ( 1 Bank*, of Cos umbus, Miss., and died in ten minutes 1 Banks has been arrested ad committed to prison. i | A youthful couple —Robert Gray, aged ninety-five, r i has just been married, in Fluvanna county, Va., io a lady ’ aged ninety-two years. Obstructions on the Track. 2 | On Saturday night last, some malicious scoundrel at ■ j tempted to commit wholesale murder, by placing obstruct . j tions on the track ot the Macon fc Western Railroa i, } i near Howard’s station, about six miles from this city.— j The down passenger train came iu contact with the ob ! 6tacles—which were carefully laid on both sides of the • track —about 8 o’clock, I\ M. but owing to the slow rate of speed, no damage was sustained, farther than a deten tion of the train, and a very considerable “breaking up” of the Locomotive.— Macon 7’elegraph } 2~th The Legislature. We publish the proceedings of both Houses up to Fri day night. Whilst we cheerfully testify to the working abilities of this General Assembly, we canuot expect to see the present Session shorter than either of its prede cessors. There is already on the tables of both Houses, a large amount of important business, which should re ceive a careful investigation, before final disposal. Per haps, at no previous Session, were there presented so many valuable bills during the first three weeks. We see no remedy for all this, but in annual sessions. We do hope the Legislature will not adjourn until it provides for an nual sessions. They should, of couse, be limited ss to duration. If anything can diminish the weight of business that bi-ennially comes before the General Assembly, this will do it. —Federal Union. Accident. —On Tuesday evening the locomotive at tached to the passenger train on the E. T. and Geor gia Rail Road rau off the track this side of Loudon some three miles, when a freight train that was but a short distance behind ran into the passenger cars, to tally demolishing one and seriously damaging auother, and also the engine. Fortunately I the passengers had time to get out before the collieiou,aßd noons was hurt. —Knoxville Standard , 22 d. Nebraska.— The election in the Territory of Nebras ka, (says the Washington Union,) for a delegate to Congress, has resulted in the suceess of Bird B. Chap man, esq., tho democratic candidate. Mr. Chapman is a gentleman of fine abilities ; and we have no hesita tion in predicting in advance that he will discharge hie whole duty to his constituents in a most efficient and acceptable manner. Damages Against a Corporation. —At the recent term of the Circuit Court of Kuos county, W. A. Hoffer ob tained a verdict against the Mayor and Aldermen of Knox ville, Tennessee, tor 3,000 damages received (a broken leg which has rendered him a cripple for life,) by falling from the side walk at a point where a deep cut had been made iu improving Gay street. SW Al Niagara Falls, last Friday uigbt, a young ; man, name unknown, who Lad been disappointed in | love, walked out to tire precipice, took off his hat and coit, and, casting one lingering look into the gulf beneath him—turned and went back to bis Loud, llis body was found next morning—in bed. , Comparisons. —ln the eastern part of Delaware coun* ty, Ohio, there rtsides a mau named B . now a Jus j tice of the peace, and a very sensible man, but, by cum in m consent the ugliest looking individual iu the whole county, being long, gaunt, sallow and awry, with a gait :Ik a kangaroo. One day he was out hunting, and on one of the moun. taiu roads he met a man who was longer, gaunter, uglier j by all odds than himself, in short he could give the Squire i fiity, and beat him. Without saying • word, B rais ed his gun ond deliberately levelled it at the stranger, j “For heaven’s sake, don’t shoot !” eritd the man, in great alaim. “Stranger,” rep’ied B “I swore, some ten years ago, that if 1 ever met a man uglier than myself, I’d shoot him ; and you are the fust one I’ve seen.” 3he stranger, alter taking a careful survey of his ri* val, replied— “ Well, capting, if I look any worse then you do, sbote, T don’t wish to live uo longer !” Galvestosi. Nov. 23. Get Rusk has been unanimously elected United States Senator, irom Tex*s. Richmond, Nov. 25. The Sapreme Court of Virginia has decided the in junction salts growing out of the Wheeling Bridge con- j troversy. in fsver of tire Baltimore Railway. I MUST HASTEN HOME. I most hasten home, said a rosy child, Who had gaily roamed for hours; I must hasten home to my mother dear She will seek me amid the bowers. If she chides, I will seal her lips with a kiss, And offer her all my flowers. i must hasten home, said a begger girJ, As she carried the pitiful store Os crumbs and scraps of crusted bread. She had gathered trom door to door; I must hasten home to my mother dear, She is feeble, and old and poor! I must hasten home, said the ball room beile, As day began to dawn ; And the glitering jewels her dara hair decked, Shone bright as the dews ot morn ; I'll forsake the joys ot this changing world, Which leave in the heart but a thorn. I must hasten home, said a dying youth, Who had vainly sought for fame— Who had vowed to win a laurel wreath, And immortalize hts name ; But, a stranger, he died on a foreign shore— All the hopes he had cherished were vain. I am hastening home, said an aged man, As he gazed on the grassy sod, Where utt.ere age had silvered his hairs, His feet had lightly trod ; Farewell ! farewell to this lovely earth 1 am hastening home to God ! Later from California. New Orleans, Nov. 24. The Daniel Webster has arrived. She left Punta Arenas on the 19th instant, sud brings California dates to the sth. The latest news from the mines is encouraging. The Oregon Indians continue their depredations upon the northern settlements. Two hundred men had left Sau Fianeisco to join Col. Walker, who is still in Grenada and lmd quiet possession of the Transit Route ou the 13th. Walker was receiv ing daily accessions to his ranks, and his government has been formally recognised by Col. Wheeler. Kinney is still at Greytown. Disturbance in the Platte Country. Chicago, Nov. 37. Great excitement exists iu the Platte country in Mis souri on account of the return of Geotge Park to Park ville. A committee of citizens of Platte city went to Parkville and demanded that George Park bo delivered up. Tho citizens of Parkville refused, upon which threats were made to burn the town. The citizens of Parkville thereupon held a meeting, organized a large force,aud re solved to defend themselves. Hero he matter rests. A most intense excitement prevails throughout tho whole region. the Canada. New York, Nov. 25. English stocks closed on the day of steamer’s depart ! ure, a penny higher in consequence of the approaching s declaration of the semi-annual dividend. ! The British Government had prohibited the exporta. tion of Saltpetre from the East Indies except to London | and Liverpool. It has also ordered ali vessels loading j with Saltpetre aud Nitrate of Seda in English ports, to discharge. i The losses by the recent gale on the English coast aro estimated *t two and a half millions of dollars. Another attempt to fire tho city of Macon was made a ; few nights ago. A ware-room adjoining the Floyd 1 House was consumed, and tho latter greatly endangered. Dr. Beale, the Philadelphia Dentist, whose trial and , conviction excited so much public attention about a year 1 since, has been liberated from prison, having received a i pardou from Gov. Pollock. j Small Pux iu Wilkes countu.— The Republican of | Friday last, states that several cases of small pox have oc* | curved in the lower part of Wilkes county, about fifteen miles from Washington. Our engagements prevented our going to hear Mr. ; Peabody’s address, evening before last, at Estelle Hall, j We learn that it was all that such an address ought to be; • replete with useful information nnd calculated to stimu j late the love #f the simply beautiful in nature. He must . have succeeded in imparting a good deal of his enthusiasm j to his audience.— Mont. Mail , 22 d. Kansas. —The St. Louis Republican of the 13th, inst., j has the following nows front Kansas: ! “.Judge S. G. Cats, appointed in the place of Hon. i R. Elmore, had arrived at the Shawnee Mission, to en • ter at once upon hisduths. The latter still adhered to j bis determination to contest his claims to the office. j “The ceremony of breaking ground upon the site of • the future capital of the Territory was performed with ■ great eeretnouy at Lecomptou, on the 4th inst. Gov. i Shannon delivering an address en tho uocasion. His j Excellency, in the course of his remarks, avoided any I allusion to the question of slavery. “The Abolition editors of Lawrence city were in a ’ deplorable state of temper. The lit raid ot Freedom • calls his brother of the Free State “n lying drunken sot,” j and threatens him further exposure about being bought > up. The Free State rejoined in terms as nearly unplial ; ic, und not a whit more complimentary.” Columbus, Nov. 27. COTTON—The market yesterday was active at full , prices. Middlings Sto Si, Strict Middlings 8§ to Bg, j Good Middlings 8$ to f?§. Middling Fair 0 cents, j The feeling is not so sirong to-day, and extreme quota i tions of the various grades more difficult of attainment. Savanna!!, Nov. 26. COTTON—Market firm Saturday with sales of 991 ! bales at 8i to 10 ©cuts. New Yoke, Nov. 25. The Cottou market closed yesterday quiet. Salts of tho day 800 bales. Flour is q'liet. Stale brands $9.68 Ohio $9.94. — Southern $lO. Wheat is dull. White $2.27. Red $2.19. Coru is higher, quotid atsl,o7i per bushel. New Orleans, Nov. 23. Sales of cotton to-day 7,500 bales. Middling 9 to 9$ I cents. Salts of the week 50,000 bales* Week’s receipts | 63,700, against 33,500 same week lest year. The in . c-eHsed receipts at this port up to to. day. amount to 175,- | 000. Stock 137,000. MAJIKILI), On Wednesday evening, 21st ioet., by Rev. Mr. Davtn port, Mr. Henry L. McGehee and Mies Mary J. Hardiscu, daughter of Maj. W. B. IlardisoD, of Mariou Cos. Gs. ! In Knoxville, Teon ,on Tuesday ev> n ng, 20ih Inst., by j the Rev. Jos £l. Martin, Dr. George Btekwell and M.ts j Margaret Bell—all of that city. . On the 12th inst., by the Rev. W. C-. Johnson, the Rv. J. B McFerrio, IX D . Editor of the Nathvjile Chrbtiau ; Advocate, and Miss Cynthia Tennessee, daughter of Johu ; McGavock, F,sq.,of Edgefield, near Nashville, Tenn. WE are authorized to arroouuce WM. MAHAFFEY r candidate for re-election to the"office of City Marshal, for the ensuing year. Election 2d Saturday iu December. I nov2B _ twtde’’ WEaanoaoce ISAAC MITCHELL a candidate for re-election to the office of city Treasurer. Nov. 16,1853.—td MANY VOTERS. HfWE are authorized to announce the Dante of F. G. WILKINS ass candidate for the office of May< r, at the ensuing election in December next. dot 10— td rr We are autbcrfzcd -to tDie. e Jsi H.Ccok | candid a i-e for the * fflee of &extoo, at the eosuisg election. >’ov.2l. ivrtd. W£ are authorized i j anuouaoe George Guiles ait candidate for City Mar: bal, at the c aliiosr election. ■•>v3F~Mre KVNVVOTFIf.